Hello everyone,

I just installed Gnome Slackbuild in my Slackware distribution. In general, everything is working perfectly, and I'm very satisfied. Unfortunately, I cannot get sound working. I made the suggested changes to asound.conf, but nothing... I've googled, and come up blank. If I go into pavucontrol or Gnome volume setting it says it's playing on null output. I have a Soundblaster Audigy ca0106.

Thank you in advance,

Mike Br.

I don't know the answer, but I'm curious: does sound work when you're not in GNOME?

Hi Mike Br.

Have you tried posting this in the GSB forum? Most of us do not run Gnome. It sounds like your issue is perhaps a Gnome/GSB issue and not a Slackware issue.
Good luck. Hopefully another GSB user here can help you.
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... It sounds like your issue is perhaps a Gnome/GSB issue and not a Slackware issue.
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It may well be a SLACKWARE issue. On this end I recently purchased a HP G71 laptop and have the same problem - no sound.

Tried Alsamixer and changed "MM" to "m" for the speaker, exited, typed in "su" then "alsactrl store" and still no sound.

Later on today when time permits, I'll be checking out the use of "chmod 666/dev/dsp*" as well as "chmod 666/dev/mixer*" just to see what happens.

tyc

Yes. I'm pretty sure the issue is with pulseaudio, and it's settings, somehow.

So, I am having similar problems with GSB v. 2.26.3 and Slack 13.0. What I have found is that the alsa settings are quite finicky and very particular in regards to recording as to what is toggled on mute and what isn't. For playback, I've gotten sound to work - until some unknown occurrence and then the sound cuts off. Sometimes when that happens I can logoff/log on and fixes it, sometimes I must reboot. I believe the issue lies with Skype, however I haven't been able to pin it down yet as I can use sound with Skype as long as that unknown occurrence has not happened first ...

For Playback, I must have the following alsa settings:
Mic on, Capture on, Digital on, Digital off.
I have two microphones built into this laptop - one is part of the web cam, the other is a regular type. I believe it is the digital mic associated with the built in web cam which must be muted for sound to work.

I"ve been looking around at droplinegnome's forum which has some additional leads, but nothing has succeeded yet.

-daniel

Two other notes. I also had to specify a specific Profile in the Pulse Audio Volume Control applet -- under Configuration, I had to explicitly set the Profile to "Output analog Stereo + Input Analog Stereo" sound does not work with any of the other profiles ... at least, using this Intel HDA driver.

Second, Ensure that the PulseAudio Manager is up and configured. I think this will solve the problems. In particular, ensure that the sink and source's have a default device which is also configured in /etc/asound.conf, and /etc/pulse/default.pa. The last two lines of the default.pa file are commented out -- try uncommenting them and see if you have better luck in configuring the PA Manager.


-daniel

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, and recently installed Gnome Slackbuild... Sound works ok, only the volume being quite low even at maximum level...
But I have a problem: when I try to plug an earphone/headphone in the front slots, there's no sound coming from them.
It seems that pulseaudio detects the external microphone (as I can see another input device in its manager), but that doesn't happen to the external output.

Not only that, but the volume is MUCH lower than my Vista, or even my Ubuntu installation... I tried boosting it thru Applications->Sound->Pulseaudio manager, selecting "Devices"->Properties (one of the outputs) and increasing the volume, but if I get it to a nice level, it is very distorted. Plus, if I change the volume in other programs (like the sound bar near the system clock, in Youtube player...) it looses the custom volume.

How can I improve this?